Word: masurian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post-war novelists rebuilt the first hours of the war it was with imaginations darkened by the memory of the 900,000 English, the 1,385,000 Frenchmen, the 1,600,000 Germans, who were dead in battle. The agony of Verdun, the bogs of suffering in the Masurian Lakes, the memories of starvation, wounds, cruelties, riots, assassinations, broken families and broken lives haunted the minds of men even while they compelled them to try to bring an intellectual order out of war's chaos...